domingo, 22 de septiembre de 2013

A government made up of criminals cannot be succesful

A poster produced by the opposition contrasts our heroes, above, with the gang, below. It reads: (Heroes) gave their lives to give us a fatherland. (Gang) surrendered their fatherland to live well.

Honest people in government usually
obtains good results. A government of gangsters rarely will. If the government is made up of a portion of
bureaucrats with a criminal record we face potential disaster. The government
of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro has had a number of collaborators with murky
credentials. I will not waste my time asking that these persons be investigated
or punished but I believe is useful to repeat, time after time, that a
government with members such as those is doomed to failure.

1.Hugo Chávez Frías was president for 14 years. As
an active member of the armed forces he led a coup against the democratic presidency
of Carlos Andres Perez. By his own admission he told the soldiers he brought to
the coup that they were going to a parade. He took them to die and he chose to
remain behind instead of leading the charge. This coup caused more than 100 innocent lives.
He had blood in his hands and he was proud of it. When president he instituted
the day of this coup as a “national festivity”.

2.Diosdado Cabello, Pedro Carreño, Francisco Arias
Cardenas, Jesse Chacón, Luis Acosta Carlez,
among others, accompanied him in this coup and also had blood in their hands
and committed an act of treason against the Venezuelan constitution.

3.Adina Bastidas, vice president of the republic
at one time was caught by the Caracas police in the 1960’s robbing a lady of
her savings at gun point at the doors of a bank. Source: daily newspaper El
Universal

4.Freddy Bernal, Mayor of Caracas, led a band of
robbers in Caracas, also in the 1960’s. Source: daily newspaper El Universal.
Lately he has been named as a collaborator of drug traffickers by the U.S.
government

5.Alí Rodríguez Araque, minister several times, president of state oil
company, ambassador. He was a terrorist in the 1960’s, expert in explosives,
tried to destroy valuable national assets. Known as Comandante Fausto during
his terrorist days.

6.Carlos Lanz, president of aluminum company ALCASA
and one of the ideologues of the regime. He was the leading kidnapper of U.S. businessman
William Niehous in 1976 and was sent to prison for this crime

7.Clodosbaldo Russian, former general Comptroller,
deceased. Urban terrorist who was sent to prison and escaped, never paying for
his crimes.

14.Isaías Rodríguez. Former vice president of the
republic and Attorney General (Fiscal General). Person of interest in the
murder of Danilo Anderson. As Attorney
General he produced false witnesses to throw the Anderson case into confusion.

15.Alejandro Andrade, Tobias Nóbrega. Finance top
collaborators of the regime, Andrade former Treasurer and openly living as a millionaire,
Nóbrega named as guilty of corruption while minister, in the Florida trial of
Carlos Kauffman. Source: http://www.petroleumworld.com/sunopf09120601.htm

16. Cilia Flores, wife of current "president" Nicolas Maduro. She employed over 30 relatives in the Venezuelan National Assembly.

This list is very partial and serves only to indicate
that there are top collaborator of the regime have questionable credentials.
Other collaborators arrived without known transgressions and are now deeply
immersed in corruption, such as PDVSA’s president Rafael Ramirez. We can see
how Hugo Chavez arrived to the presidency with this gang and opened the doors
of the national treasury for them. The crime against the nation has been
immense.